Going with the ships over the horizon example suppose you have two ships, Ship A and Ship B. The two ships can see each other and you can see Ship A. But Ship B is over the horizon and you don't know that it exists. Now suppose that Ship B fires a cannon ball at Ship A. Ship A takes evasive action and returns fire. Now you can see Ship A moving erratically and firing its cannons and can posit that it must be in battle with an unseen opponent.
Have you magically developed super vision which allows you to see beyond the Earth's horizon? No, you merely made a logical conclusion based on your observations. And this is what we are talking about here. Not FTL, just a clever way to infer the structure of the universe by measuring the effects of the gravity of clusters of galaxies that we can't see on the parts of the universe that we can see.
Either I'm confused or the write up and author of the space.com article are just confusing. Granted, I'm not a physicist but it seems to me that the papers are saying something very different from the write up and the article say. Instead of some mysterious new force from outside the universe, the two papers are based on an analysis of the Cold Dark Matter theory which has been around for some time.
The article is also confusing when it talks about the "known universe." The Inflationary Theory of the origin of the universe says that early on in its existence, the universe underwent a drastically fast expansion. When physicists talk about the "observable universe," they are referring to the idea that Inflation caused parts of the universe to expand so rapidly that their light cannot reach us in the age of the universe. Now those regions are still part of our universe, we just can't see them because they are "over the horizon" so to speak like a ship on the ocean which disappears from view once it gets so far away from shore that the Earth curves away from our field of vision.
In fact this last point appears to be the most interesting part of the papers if I understand them correctly. The papers suggest that it is possible to peak over the horizon and get an idea of what the universe looks like beyond the limits of what we can see with our telescopes. Like the mast of a ship peaking out from the edge of the horizon, clusters of galaxies that we could not see otherwise can be detected by carefully measuring the effects of their gravity on regions of the universe that we can see.
But the browser in question here (Chrome) is smaller and faster and less bloated than the major competitors (IE and Firefox). So it would seem that the Google people are listening to your complaint.
Well, once you get out as far as the Oort cloud which is almost a light year away from the Sun, an object's membership in the solar system could become fairly tenuous. I could see how the Sun might approach another star and have its Oort cloud interact with the other star's Oort cloud, exchanging some objects and sending a few others into a closer orbit. There might even be rogue comets which just wander through interstellar space because they were kicked out of their solar system by just such an interaction.
The scarring of the inner planets should mean nothing unless it can be proven that the bulk of the impacts occured around a relatively short period. That is: instead of random impacts over billions of years with little or no weathering to eliminate the scars.
Granted, the early solar system should have somewhat more chaotic before the early planets had "swept up" a lot of the debris, and one would expect more bombardment early on. However, this should not indicate anything about the formation of the asteroid belt- let alone involvement of Oort cloud objects.
Lastly, I'm not even sure what scarring of the inner planets you are referring to as evidence(besides the Moon). Earth, Venus, and Mars all can weather away impact craters, and I'd like to know what indications of a concentrated bombardment are recorded.
You might want to Google the phrase "Late Heavy Bombardment." In fact, the evidence suggests that most of the bombardment of the inner solar system following the creation of the planets occurred at roughly same time. Besides the Moon, Mercury has also been heavily scarred by impacts and has no atmosphere weather away the evidence. There are also entire "families" of asteroids like the "Baptistina" family (Google for that too, it's a very interesting story) which are appear to have resulted from collisions in the asteroid belt.
Yes, there was a serious theory for a while that a small dim star called "Nemesis" orbits the Sun and would disrupt the Oort could every 40 million years or so sending a hail of comets into the inner solar system which is responsible for mass extinctions on Earth. It never really had many supporters.
I addition to Nemesis, which at least was a theory espoused by legitimate astronomers, many kooks are convinced that there is a weird giant planet out in that same area which swings by Earth every few thousand years and is supposedly the home to a race of lizard people who communicated with the Sumerians. Now go to bed or the lizard people will get you.
It seems that Sedna is sometimes regarded as an inner Oort Cloud object. But this seems to be disputed since it's a lot closer than the supposed location of the Oort Cloud but much farther away than the Kuiper Belt objects.
Either slavery is legal in the Disneyverse or Goofy is one of Disney's greatest monsters. Think about it, most of the Disney animal cartoon characters were sentient. But Pluto wasn't. What if Pluto was originally a normal Disneyesque talking dog who was kidnapped by Goofy and lobotomized so he could have a pet? We're through the looking glass here people....
Well, I imagine that lost continents like the ones you describe would be harder to locate in the geological record than existing continents. But here are a couple of Wikipedia articles about "submergedcontinents" which are believed to have existed in the past.
If you watch your scriptures carefully, they take place "a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away". So it would clearly be heresy to suggest that Earth and Hoth are the same planet.
That's what Charleton Heston thought until they blew it up. Those maniacs!
In fairness to Einstein, his cosmological constant is frequently invoked as a possible source of Dark Energy. So wrap your head around this, it's possible that Einstein may yet be proven to have been right about an idea that he once called his "greatest mistake." And that to me is simply a mind-blowing possibility.
If they had listened to the other part which told them to cancel the Centro, Palm would have canned a phone which sold a million units in one quarter and has helped keep them afloat.
You mean I didn't really banish Mephisto, Diablo, and Baal to the outer darkness forever?
That's just what Tyrael wanted you to think so you'd get them out of the way for him so he could smash the Worldstone, take over, and bring them back as his minions. You were being played all along as you were playing the first games.
It's pretty clear from the demo on the website that Cain just got himself trapped again and that one of your early missions will be to rescue him. It also looks like he'll be grumpier than ever.
Me neither, at least not as for the details, but it seems to have something to do with a comet crashing down in Tristram. *shrug* According to what was on blizzard.com/diablo3 at least earlier today (that site seem to have lost a lot of info now though, not sure what's going on there, if Blizzard is maybe still working on the initial version). I thought it was odd they didn't follow the D2 storyline with the worldstone shattering. But maybe that's somehow related to how the events unfold in D3 as well. Hm.
The cinematic teaser shows a glimpse of the destruction of the Worldstone, with brief shot of Tyriel hurling his sword at it. So they might follow up on that event.
All I see is fifty bazillion unnecessary Flash widgets, with a smidgen of text way at the bottom. They even apparently require Flash just to show a fancy capital "T".
At least you got to see the bazillion unnecessary Flash widgets. The page appears to be slashdotted.
Ahhh but don't you see? It was all Al's fault. The Martians listened to him and believed his Powerpoint presentation. So they cut back on green house gases until the planet froze in a perpetual ice age! And now he wants to do it to us! If we cut back on green house gasses, the glaciers will grow and polar bears will migrate south to eat our women and children. We have to stop this environmentalism crap or all we'll all be killed and turned into Bear Chow.
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Correct. If I'm not mistaken that newsgroup's charter originally called for Wesley Crusher to be raped and killed by Klingon Kougers.
Yes, it also has a wealth of pirated music and video.
If we'd done that, we'd have never discovered Neptune.
Going with the ships over the horizon example suppose you have two ships, Ship A and Ship B. The two ships can see each other and you can see Ship A. But Ship B is over the horizon and you don't know that it exists. Now suppose that Ship B fires a cannon ball at Ship A. Ship A takes evasive action and returns fire. Now you can see Ship A moving erratically and firing its cannons and can posit that it must be in battle with an unseen opponent.
Have you magically developed super vision which allows you to see beyond the Earth's horizon? No, you merely made a logical conclusion based on your observations. And this is what we are talking about here. Not FTL, just a clever way to infer the structure of the universe by measuring the effects of the gravity of clusters of galaxies that we can't see on the parts of the universe that we can see.
Either I'm confused or the write up and author of the space.com article are just confusing. Granted, I'm not a physicist but it seems to me that the papers are saying something very different from the write up and the article say. Instead of some mysterious new force from outside the universe, the two papers are based on an analysis of the Cold Dark Matter theory which has been around for some time.
The article is also confusing when it talks about the "known universe." The Inflationary Theory of the origin of the universe says that early on in its existence, the universe underwent a drastically fast expansion. When physicists talk about the "observable universe," they are referring to the idea that Inflation caused parts of the universe to expand so rapidly that their light cannot reach us in the age of the universe. Now those regions are still part of our universe, we just can't see them because they are "over the horizon" so to speak like a ship on the ocean which disappears from view once it gets so far away from shore that the Earth curves away from our field of vision.
In fact this last point appears to be the most interesting part of the papers if I understand them correctly. The papers suggest that it is possible to peak over the horizon and get an idea of what the universe looks like beyond the limits of what we can see with our telescopes. Like the mast of a ship peaking out from the edge of the horizon, clusters of galaxies that we could not see otherwise can be detected by carefully measuring the effects of their gravity on regions of the universe that we can see.
But the browser in question here (Chrome) is smaller and faster and less bloated than the major competitors (IE and Firefox). So it would seem that the Google people are listening to your complaint.
Well, once you get out as far as the Oort cloud which is almost a light year away from the Sun, an object's membership in the solar system could become fairly tenuous. I could see how the Sun might approach another star and have its Oort cloud interact with the other star's Oort cloud, exchanging some objects and sending a few others into a closer orbit. There might even be rogue comets which just wander through interstellar space because they were kicked out of their solar system by just such an interaction.
You might want to Google the phrase "Late Heavy Bombardment." In fact, the evidence suggests that most of the bombardment of the inner solar system following the creation of the planets occurred at roughly same time. Besides the Moon, Mercury has also been heavily scarred by impacts and has no atmosphere weather away the evidence. There are also entire "families" of asteroids like the "Baptistina" family (Google for that too, it's a very interesting story) which are appear to have resulted from collisions in the asteroid belt.
Yes, there was a serious theory for a while that a small dim star called "Nemesis" orbits the Sun and would disrupt the Oort could every 40 million years or so sending a hail of comets into the inner solar system which is responsible for mass extinctions on Earth. It never really had many supporters.
I addition to Nemesis, which at least was a theory espoused by legitimate astronomers, many kooks are convinced that there is a weird giant planet out in that same area which swings by Earth every few thousand years and is supposedly the home to a race of lizard people who communicated with the Sumerians. Now go to bed or the lizard people will get you.
It seems that Sedna is sometimes regarded as an inner Oort Cloud object. But this seems to be disputed since it's a lot closer than the supposed location of the Oort Cloud but much farther away than the Kuiper Belt objects.
The way I do it with Agent is that I set a watch filter for my own screen name which automatically retrieves any replies to one of my posts.
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Searchme.com won't even display anything if you have Javascript turned off. No thanks.
And now it's come back for me!
Either slavery is legal in the Disneyverse or Goofy is one of Disney's greatest monsters. Think about it, most of the Disney animal cartoon characters were sentient. But Pluto wasn't. What if Pluto was originally a normal Disneyesque talking dog who was kidnapped by Goofy and lobotomized so he could have a pet? We're through the looking glass here people....
Well, I imagine that lost continents like the ones you describe would be harder to locate in the geological record than existing continents. But here are a couple of Wikipedia articles about "submerged continents" which are believed to have existed in the past.
That's what Charleton Heston thought until they blew it up. Those maniacs!
And I suppose Pitch-o-mat 5000 was just a modified howitzer?
In fairness to Einstein, his cosmological constant is frequently invoked as a possible source of Dark Energy. So wrap your head around this, it's possible that Einstein may yet be proven to have been right about an idea that he once called his "greatest mistake." And that to me is simply a mind-blowing possibility.
If they had listened to the other part which told them to cancel the Centro, Palm would have canned a phone which sold a million units in one quarter and has helped keep them afloat.
That's just what Tyrael wanted you to think so you'd get them out of the way for him so he could smash the Worldstone, take over, and bring them back as his minions. You were being played all along as you were playing the first games.
It's pretty clear from the demo on the website that Cain just got himself trapped again and that one of your early missions will be to rescue him. It also looks like he'll be grumpier than ever.
The cinematic teaser shows a glimpse of the destruction of the Worldstone, with brief shot of Tyriel hurling his sword at it. So they might follow up on that event.
At least you got to see the bazillion unnecessary Flash widgets. The page appears to be slashdotted.
Ahhh but don't you see? It was all Al's fault. The Martians listened to him and believed his Powerpoint presentation. So they cut back on green house gases until the planet froze in a perpetual ice age! And now he wants to do it to us! If we cut back on green house gasses, the glaciers will grow and polar bears will migrate south to eat our women and children. We have to stop this environmentalism crap or all we'll all be killed and turned into Bear Chow.